Samara
Provincial Executive Committee

Immediately send to Moscow all materials against the right Socialist-Revolutionary Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Smirnov, report the reasons for his arrest, verify his declaration of willingness to work with Soviet power against Kolchak, provide Smirnov for now with the most favorable conditions of detention.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin

First published in 1945

in Lenin Collection XXXV

Printed from the manuscript